Comments on the race of life.

Germs – money laundering

A MasterCard study conducted with the University of Oxford found that the average European banknote contains 26,000 bacterial colonies and UK notes were among the dirtiest – along with Denmark’s krone, Russia’s rouble and the Austrian euro.

The study comes in within a week of the old £50 banknote being withdrawn and follows the announcement that the UK will use plastic bank notes so that they are more durable and more hygienic.

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Funny, the other day Mr Furlong was given two £50 notes. He showed them to me. We haven’t seen £50 notes for years. We checked to see they weren’t the withdrawn ones, but they weren’t.

We don’t have to wash our hands after handling money much nowadays – there isn’t enough of it in our house. Everything goes into or out of our bank account without us really aware of it.

But I don’t mind the idea of plastic money – as long as it’s dishwasher proof!